I thought y'all might be interested in my pneumatic bagger review and slight improvements. I still totally wish I knew about Fenrir and Thor before I made this thing but if your doing this for a living and not automated your bagging your going to break your hand like me or worse. 

https://youtu.be/cf8N7BvsuwI?si=OLlr0FRX3eWmfKkO

Hey gang,

anyone got any tips for cultivating wild lions mane & wild strains generally?

We managed to successfully clone a wild lions mane and have managed to get all the way to producing beautiful, healthy fruiting blocks but then they are stubborn fuckers when it comes to fruit?

Commercial lions mane strains & oysters grow great in our FC, but we cannot get this lions mane to fruit for dick??

we also have a wild turkey tail strain that we did manage to fruit but it came out super deformed and weird?

Have anyone heard of these sort of issues with wild species before? Had a look online and can’t find much about cultivating wild mushrooms?

any help would be much appreciated 😇

Hi,

We have been struggling with Lion's mane finishing. They start out great grow quite large then start to soften in the middle and seem to start to rot or abort.  Please explain what is causing this so it can be avoided in the future. 

Thanks

It's time yall write a detailed book. Strain list with pictures and best practices to grow it. Key information only. What type of bag is best, media ratios, colonization time with picture of ready to fruit bags, time expectations, etc. A simple detailed one page on each mushroom to get the best results. Then sell it for $ hundreds. I love listening to the podcasts but I'm typically working when I do. This leads me to not catching the 2 or 3 important things that are said on a 2 hour podcast.  Going back through the videos can be a nightmare to find that info again. As there is A LOT of filler talk. Which I love, but when im in data harvesting mode can be hard to collect the pertinent info. Yall make me laugh and I really do like listening to you once per video only though. Give it to me straight sell me your knowledge in a straight forward CLEAR no filler format with colored pictures. Maybe even some pictures we can color in back of the book jk or am i.

What is your farm doing to mix spawn into substrate?

We're suffering with manual mixing by hand.  It doesn't scale.

Thoughts?

Hart System - I have a smaller fruiting room setup in my basement for Shiitake (11’L x 5’W x 6’H) - I’ve started growing just over a year ago, bootstrapping and scaling up more each day. 

I digress - I loathe this house of hydro pond fogger half cooked homemade humidifier. I’ve been looking for a better way and came across your Hart/Pola video. 

This appears to be the answer to my pond fogger prayers - however I’m concerned with the size of my fruiting room. Can the system be dialed way down to meet the requirements of a smaller fruiting room like mine? Or am I stuck with the pond fogger until I scale out of my basement and build a bigger fruiting chamber? 

I appreciate the insight your videos provide. I’m ready to buy this system now if I’m assured it won’t overpower my smaller room. Thanks for your help in advance! 🍄✌🏻

hi, i just got a new flow hood 2x4. i heard that a lot of places keep theirs on all the time. im a very small farm, relatively new(~3 years). not an advanced set up at all. i have a 'clean room' which is a bed room that has no mattress. my parents make me keep the carpet pad on the floor because they dont want any damage on the floor.so thats the porous surface i have in there. i tried to tell them we could get rubber floor mat or some other non porous mat to put down but they said no... other than that, i feel its kept pretty clean. my point is its not a professional clean room at all. back to keeping the flow hood on all the time. the rationale is that dust can settle on the filter if its turned off. but my parents dont want me to keep it on all the time(cost)(?). i was thinking of buying a cover for it. what do you guys think? do you think this set up is plausible to run a mushroom farm out of for now? would putting a cover on the flow hood still keep it running correctly for a while? i was getting contam a lot before with a flow hood we built so i bought this one. but after watching some of these episodes im also going to look into a few other things. i have a few questions about this as well... thank you..... 

Thank you so much Eric for that latest episode on Stroma – seriously, it confirmed some suspicions I've been nursing. Specifically, I noticed this whole issue mostly kicking off with a certain strain of blue oyster, especially when the spawn got a bit too carried away. Once that stuff grew into these big, melted chunks, boom, Stroma was practically guaranteed. Thanks, Eric, for breaking it down!

Hello mush community! I just saw the episode Steam Generation and I was wondering can someone put the link of that Chinese steam generator that Erik was showing because everything that I found is not as cheap as he mentioned in this episode?

Idk if they added it to my feed/algorithm due to the episode or just as some good news for the mushroom world but I was presented this article today:

https://m.newtimesslo.com/food/california-mushroom-growers-are-backing-a-bill-that-would-only-allow-mushrooms-that-are-fully-cultivated-in-the-state-to-bear-california-grow-14890528